LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia will nationalize a local unit of Spanish infrastructure company Abertis <ABE.MC> that manages the Andean country's three biggest airports, President Evo Morales said on Monday. Full story
LIMA (Reuters) - Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal The Cryosphere. Full story
LIMA (Reuters) - Strapping a giant condor to the back of a raging bull is a central part of an Andean festival celebrated in Peru but some people worried about the endangered vulture's future say it is time to ban the tradition. Full story
Two Andean bear cubs were born overnight at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, officials at the institution announced. Full story
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa launched his re-election bid on Saturday for a February vote likely to give him a new four-year term to continue boosting state control over the Andean nation's economy. Full story
A giant, sombrero-shaped rock formation is growing in the Andes as magma bobs up like a blob in a lava lamp, new research has found. Full story
Women sell different kinds of Quinoa, a variety of Andean grain cultivated at high altitudes, during a visit to the area by journalists with the Bolivian government to promote the International Year of Quinoa in Sevaruyo in Oruro province, some 390km south of La Paz, April 9, 2013. Officials of the
A vendor arranges products for sale made from Quinoa, a variety of Andean grain cultivated at high altitudes, during a visit to the area by journalists with the Bolivian government to promote the International Year of Quinoa, in the Quinoa Farmers National Association plant in Challapata in Oruro p
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos hands over the title to Pascual Hernando, a resident of land despoiled by the paramilitary Castano clan, in the Santa Paula farm in the town of Leticia in Monteria April 10, 2013. Colombia's congress passed a law that opens the door for reparations for victims
